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Follow on Google News | Progress on Software-defined Networking Standardization Explored in ComputerSoftware-defined networking will give administrators unprecedented flexibility, increasing control of network traffic and applications and taking management down to a granular level.
By: www.computer.org But before that can happen, the industry must overcome interoperability and standards challenges. IEEE Computer Society's flagship magazine,Computer (http://www.computer.org/ "Cloud computing's first wave began with server centralization and virtualization— Manageable, cost-effective, and adaptable in keeping with today's high-bandwidth, dynamic applications, SDN architectures decouple network control and forwarding functions, allowing network control to be programmable and the underlying infrastructure to be separated from applications and network services. After emerging in datacenters, SDN deployment has grown up into the networking-as- In general, SDN takes networking into the computing domain and will increasingly adopt the standardization practices common for computing and software. The standards bodies currently involved include the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The articles in the November issue of Computer explore a variety of SDN standardization perspectives: "SDN and OpenFlow Evolution: A Standards Perspective" "Aligning Technology and Market Drivers in an Open Source Standards Testing Program" by Rick Bauer, Ron Milford, and Li Zhen, presents and analyzes ONF's testing program. "Service Function Chaining: Creating a Service Plane via Network Service Headers," by Paul Quinn and Jim Guichard, outlines how the NSH protocol provides the required data plane information needed to meet the promised goals. In "When Open Source Meets Network Control Planes," Christian Esteve Rothenberg, Roy Chua, Josh Bailey, Martin Winter, Carlos Corrêa, Sidney C. de Lucena, Marcos Rogério Salvador, and Thomas D. Nadeau discuss the role that open source plays in transforming SDN's software and hardware in the networking landscape. In "Software-Defined Networks: Incremental Deployment with Panopticon," And in "Virtualization of Home Network Gateways," Marion Dillon and Timothy Winters present network function virtualization with an example that aims to move the home network gateway to the cloud. "This first special issue of Computer devoted to SDN focuses on standardization. While we expect future issues will broaden this scope, we hope the articles included here will provide readers with a snapshot that suggests the prospects and many possibilities for this developing technology," Other guest editors who worked on the issue are David Hausheer, an assistant professor at the Technische Universität Darmstadt; Erica Johnson, director of the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory; and Yi-Bing Lin, a chair professor at National Chiao Tung Univeristy. To receive Computer magazine, join IEEE Computer Society (http://www.computer.org/ About IEEE Computer Society IEEE Computer Society is the world's leading computing membership organization and the trusted information and career-development source for a global workforce of technology leaders including: professors, researchers, software engineers, IT professionals, employers, and students. The unmatched source for technology information, inspiration, and collaboration, the IEEE Computer Society is the source that computing professionals trust to provide high-quality, state-of-the- End
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